Brief Life History of Henry
When Henry Barker was christened on 4 July 1776, in Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England, his father, William Barker, was 26 and his mother, Mrs. Barker, was 22. He married Jane Theakston on 6 November 1733, in Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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- Henry Barker, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Henry Barker, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- Henry Barker, "England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016"
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World Events (3)
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1821 · New Ouse Bridge Completed
The original Ouse Bridge collapsed in 1154 under the weight of a crowd that was on it. In 1367, after the bridge had been replaced with stone and became the site of the first public toilets. In 1564-1565 the bridge was finally done being repaired. In 1810 and 1818 the bridge was dismantled to make way for a new Ouse Bridge design and completed in 1821.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a tanner of leather, from Middle English barkere ‘tanner’, tree bark having been used as the tanning agent.
English: occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English berker, bercher (Old French berchier, bercher, berkier, berker, Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’, genitive berbicis). With the change of -ar- to -er- in Middle English, this became indistinguishable from the preceding name (see 1 above).
Americanized form of German Berger or Barger .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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